Meet the Sandy Hook Truthers

The people creating this insidious conspiracy need help, but they might be so evil that they are beyond all help and hope. The number of videos promoting this sick lie are growing every day, and they are mostly from people who hate our president.

Yes, there really are Newtown truthers.

But in the crazy world of Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, this one may be the worst yet. (Maybe you’ve already heard some of the others, like the one about fantasy ties between the gunman’s family and the LIBOR banking scandal and a related theory about the Aurora shooting and the “Dark Knight Rises.”) Most of the theories are really pieces of a larger meta-theory: that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, perhaps by the Obama administration, designed to stir demand for gun control.

In the latest angle, theorists think they have found “absolute proof” of a conspiracy to defraud the American people. “You reported in December that this little girl had been killed,” a reader emailed Salon in response to a story. “She has been found, and photographed with President Obama.”

The girl in question is Emilie Parker, a 6-year-old who was shot multiple times and killed at Sandy Hook. But for conspiracy theorists, the tears her family shed at her funeral, the moving eulogy from Utah’s governor, and the entire shooting spree are fake. Welcome to the world where Sandy Hook didn’t really happen.

There are dozens of websites, blog posts and YouTube videos extolling the Emilie Parker hoax theory. If you Google her name, the very first result is a post mocking her father for crying at a press conference after the shooting. One popular video, which already has 134,000 views, was made by the producers of a popular 9/11 Truther film. “Just as the movie ‘Operation Terror’ shows the 9/11 attacks were a made-for-TV event, so too were the mass shootings … There can be no doubt that Sandy Hook was a staged event,” the narrator intones. He goes on to say that the adults who participated in the media coverage of the shootings “should be prosecuted as accessories after the fact in a mass murder” — i.e., the parents whose children were murdered in the massacre should be thrown in prison.

Even if you assume the attacks were staged (stupid I know) how could it possibly be kept under wraps?? There is no way they could have managed to pull that off and not leave one single shred of evidence behind.

I really do think these nutjobs seriously overestimate the power and reach of the U.S. government.

And on a side note: Is it fair to say the Internet has done a lot with regards to the rise of conspiracy theories post 9/11? I don’t remember hearing about wacky stuff like this much in the 90s.

Even if you assume the attacks were staged (stupid I know) how could it possibly be kept under wraps?? There is no way they could have managed to pull that off and not leave one single shred of evidence behind.

I really do think these nutjobs seriously overestimate the power and reach of the U.S. government.

And on a side note: Is it fair to say the Internet has done a lot with regards to the rise of conspiracy theories post 9/11? I don’t remember hearing about wacky stuff like this much in the 90s.

BS was harder to spread pre Internet. I do remember groups shilling VHS tapes of the “truth” about Vince Foster. He was murdered by Bill because Hillary was a lesbian or something.

Even if you assume the attacks were staged (stupid I know) how could it possibly be kept under wraps?? There is no way they could have managed to pull that off and not leave one single shred of evidence behind.

Sure “they” could. Just look at how “they” were able to stage the 9/11 attacks.

/sarc, in case it’s needed.

And as an aside, the mental health of this country as a whole is beginning to alarm me.

BS was harder to spread pre Internet. I do remember groups shilling VHS tapes of the “truth” about Vince Foster. He was murdered by Bill because Hillary was a lesbian or something.

Yeah, I was listening to el Rushbo the day he announced that Hillary had a secret apartment in NYC where Foster’s body had been moved from. That was the moment I finally realized that he was full of shit.

I’m convinced there will be truthers for everything now. Doesn’t matter what happens. There’s always going to be some idiot making outrageous insane claims like this. Makes me feel for the victims’ families even more.

I’m convinced there will be truthers for everything now. Doesn’t matter what happens. There’s always going to be some idiot making outrageous insane claims like this. Makes me feel for the victims’ families even more.

Warhol quipped that everybody would be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but I doubt he ever imagined something as widespread or ever-lasting as the Internet.

Even if you assume the attacks were staged (stupid I know) how could it possibly be kept under wraps?? There is no way they could have managed to pull that off and not leave one single shred of evidence behind.

I really do think these nutjobs seriously overestimate the power and reach of the U.S. government.

And on a side note: Is it fair to say the Internet has done a lot with regards to the rise of conspiracy theories post 9/11? I don’t remember hearing about wacky stuff like this much in the 90s.

There were groups as far back as the late 60’s who believed that the moon landings were hoaxes. The Birchers were hard-core paranoids and fantasists.

The Sandy Hook truthers are, if possible, even more wicked than the Westboro Baptist people. At least the WBC doesn’t claim the massacre was staged. And there are clearly MANY more Sandy Hook truthers than there are WBC members. All decent people should shun these scumbags like the slimy diseased cockroaches they are…apologies to cockroaches.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Sunday said that gun control laws were not the answer to mass shootings because hatchets, guns, cars and video games all had a role in violent deaths in the United States.

“What I’m hearing is that people want to make certain that — first of all — that we protect the Second Amendment and their Second Amendment rights — protect their freedom and not impede that,” Blackburn told CNN’s Candy Crowley, adding that the focus should really be on “psychiatric and psychotropic drugs.”

“They are also wanting to make certain we get in behind these video games. I watched a couple of these last night in preparation for this segment and, Candy, as a mother and as a grandmother, I was astounded with some of the things I was seeing on ‘Call to Duty’ [sic]. And, of course, we know the Norway shooter would go in and use that as target practice.”

This kind of shit will only continue as long as we let it. People need to stand up to these crazy fuckers and call them out for their craziness, then shun them.

Exactly.

Children killed in cold blood.

But the gun freaks, THEIR media money making followers: D. Loesch, the Breitbrats, et al, THEIR lives and THEIR paranoia is more important. Leading to the worst of the worst, the ones who deny the existance of horror because of THEIR own stupid paranoia.

Really, the gun freaks have shown their colors. I hope sanity overcomes the evil.

The Barron County Republican Party has shared a link on its Facebook page from a blogger who asserts that the December massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT was the work of the United States Government.

The link, shared by the Barron County GOP on December 19th, is from a wordpress blog site called “Short Little Rebel: One Christian’s Conservative Take on Politics.”

The site is run by a woman named Susan Shannon.

In the blog about the Newtown shootings, Shannon writes: “I believe our GOVERNMENT shot those kids and teachers and used Adam Lanza and his family to pull it off. They might have killed two birds with one stone. One: If these men are involved in the LIBOR scandal, they can manipulate their testimony. Two: They get gun control. How very, very clever and efficient of them, right?”

The Barron County Republican Party has shared a link on its Facebook page from a blogger who asserts that the December massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT was the work of the United States Government.

The link, shared by the Barron County GOP on December 19th, is from a wordpress blog site called “Short Little Rebel: One Christian’s Conservative Take on Politics.”

The site is run by a woman named Susan Shannon.

In the blog about the Newtown shootings, Shannon writes: “I believe our GOVERNMENT shot those kids and teachers and used Adam Lanza and his family to pull it off. They might have killed two birds with one stone. One: If these men are involved in the LIBOR scandal, they can manipulate their testimony. Two: They get gun control. How very, very clever and efficient of them, right?”

It’s an ingenious device! Instead of releasing the entire tomahawk, it releases only the metal head, which uses a laser-dot sighting system to bury itself in the head of an unsuspecting victim. Then, an auto-loading magazine (connected by string theory in a parallel universe) places another metal head on the haft.

It’s an ingenious device! Instead of releasing the entire tomahawk, it releases only the metal head, which uses a laser-dot sighting system to bury itself in the head of an unsuspecting victim. Then, an auto-loading magazine (connected by string theory in a parallel universe) places another metal head on the haft.

Likewise the whole “Banning rifles won’t stop all gun crimes” bit is tedious when you consider that their proposal, increased mental health care and registration of the mentally ill, would only address 3-5% of all violent crimes in any given year.

There are, however, a few signs of hope that Obama’s approach is changing. Nominating Chuck Hagel as secretary of Defense - with his criticism of the Israel lobby, sensible approach toward Iran, opposition to the surge in Iraq and repudiation of nuclear weapons - and John Kerry as secretary of State represents a major break with the hawks who populated Obama’s first administration.

Farrakhan on ‘Django Unchained’: ‘It’s Preparation for Race War: JESUS SAID NATION WILL RISE AGAINST NATION—THE WORD IN GREEK FOR NATION IS ETHNOS AS IN ETHNIC OR RACIAL WARFARE-TOLD EVERYONE 20 YEARS AGO THIS WAS COMING!

Farrakhan on ‘Django Unchained’: ‘It’s Preparation for Race War: JESUS SAID NATION WILL RISE AGAINST NATION—THE WORD IN GREEK FOR NATION IS ETHNOS AS IN ETHNIC OR RACIAL WARFARE-TOLD EVERYONE 20 YEARS AGO THIS WAS COMING!

Marsha, I”ll accept your point when you tell whether you’d have more success running from a hatchet or a bullet. While you’re pondering that, could you tell me how many innocent people died while sitting in their homes from a drive-by hammering with a hammer obtained from an unregulated hammer sale? Or even a drive-by hatcheting?

There are dozens of websites, blog posts and YouTube videos extolling the Emilie Parker hoax theory. If you Google her name, the very first result is a post mocking her father for crying at a press conference after the shooting.